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their sedulous anxiety . Deeply regretting , as I dp , some expressions in Bro . Symonds's letter ( regarding them as both ungenerous and unjust ) , I forbear employing that talent , the possession of which he is good enough to ascribe to me , with ' . reference to Mm . I am almost disposed to forgive his aspersions on . ' . myself , for the sake of the testimony he bears to the zeal and ability of a noble Brother whose fair ( Masonic ) fame it has
been sought to tarnish by the imputation of motives the most unworthy , and by suggestions as false as they are calumnious . I cannot help noticing , however , the want of candour displayed by Bro . Symonds , in his u disingenuous distortion" into a charge of an allusion by me to what had been written by one of j ^ our correspondents with reference to the three grand principles on which the Order is founded . The force of my remark thereon can he readily estimated by areference to your columns .
I have no sympathy with Bro . Symonds in his honour of u party . " What is a party but a body of men with a policy to enunciate , and an organization to give effect thereto ? Surely the members of Grand Lodge are not children , frightened at a bugbear ! Bro . Symonds fears that my future usefulness" ( whatever that may be ) , with regard to the charities , may be impaired by my present course . As I have not the smallest intention of abandoning the advocacy of those
principles it has hitherto been my pride to support— -and as the interests of the charities are sufficiently sacred in my eyes to justify any sacrifice I can make— -I now announce to Bro . Symonds , and to all whom it may concern , my withdrawal from any further participation in those measures which I was to some extent instrumental in originating , and the carrying out of
which was referred to Bro . Symonds , Bro . Lyall , and myself . Bro . Symonds will find no difficulty in procuring a colleague equally zealous , and to him more comfortably orthodox . I could not have conceived the possibility of such an effect , but I leave Bro . Symonds to be the best judge , and adopt the only method open to me to allay his apprehensions . I shall begin to fear that the morbid fancies of some Brethren will magnify our " designs'" into the most hideous proportions ; and I shall not be
surprised if in thejend we are believed by some to be without the pale of salvation . What the result may be I cannot foretell— -but this I know , there is no surer means of rendering a man had , than to be constantly impressing upon him that he is so . I am accused of u self-laudation . ' I have always studiously avoided it , though repeated attacks would have justified it . I do not think I am . rendering myself amenable to the charge by asking Brethren to look through
the names composing the " party now so ruthlessly condemned , and to judge for themselves as to the probability of men who have rendered such services to the Craft in general , and to the charities in particular , being banded together with a purpose to injure or destroy ! The propagation of such an idea is prompted by baseness and malice , and could only proceed from those who see but too surely in the determined efforts for . improvement the destruction of their own unconstitutional supremacy .
In admitting , as I do most willingly , that improvement has been effected , 1 would ask—to whom it is attributable , but to those who through evil report aim * good report have kept their course , and who will persevere therein undeterred by the opposition of the ignorant and the malevolent , having faith in themselves , and being sustained by the consciousness of their own singleness of purpose , which they are confident will become sufficiently manifest to enable them to triumph over misrepresentation and detraction ! While anxious on all occasions to yield my tribute of admiration to the many excellencies of the EarJ of Zetland , I reserve to myself the right oi 3 l *
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their sedulous anxiety . Deeply regretting , as I dp , some expressions in Bro . Symonds's letter ( regarding them as both ungenerous and unjust ) , I forbear employing that talent , the possession of which he is good enough to ascribe to me , with ' . reference to Mm . I am almost disposed to forgive his aspersions on . ' . myself , for the sake of the testimony he bears to the zeal and ability of a noble Brother whose fair ( Masonic ) fame it has
been sought to tarnish by the imputation of motives the most unworthy , and by suggestions as false as they are calumnious . I cannot help noticing , however , the want of candour displayed by Bro . Symonds , in his u disingenuous distortion" into a charge of an allusion by me to what had been written by one of j ^ our correspondents with reference to the three grand principles on which the Order is founded . The force of my remark thereon can he readily estimated by areference to your columns .
I have no sympathy with Bro . Symonds in his honour of u party . " What is a party but a body of men with a policy to enunciate , and an organization to give effect thereto ? Surely the members of Grand Lodge are not children , frightened at a bugbear ! Bro . Symonds fears that my future usefulness" ( whatever that may be ) , with regard to the charities , may be impaired by my present course . As I have not the smallest intention of abandoning the advocacy of those
principles it has hitherto been my pride to support— -and as the interests of the charities are sufficiently sacred in my eyes to justify any sacrifice I can make— -I now announce to Bro . Symonds , and to all whom it may concern , my withdrawal from any further participation in those measures which I was to some extent instrumental in originating , and the carrying out of
which was referred to Bro . Symonds , Bro . Lyall , and myself . Bro . Symonds will find no difficulty in procuring a colleague equally zealous , and to him more comfortably orthodox . I could not have conceived the possibility of such an effect , but I leave Bro . Symonds to be the best judge , and adopt the only method open to me to allay his apprehensions . I shall begin to fear that the morbid fancies of some Brethren will magnify our " designs'" into the most hideous proportions ; and I shall not be
surprised if in thejend we are believed by some to be without the pale of salvation . What the result may be I cannot foretell— -but this I know , there is no surer means of rendering a man had , than to be constantly impressing upon him that he is so . I am accused of u self-laudation . ' I have always studiously avoided it , though repeated attacks would have justified it . I do not think I am . rendering myself amenable to the charge by asking Brethren to look through
the names composing the " party now so ruthlessly condemned , and to judge for themselves as to the probability of men who have rendered such services to the Craft in general , and to the charities in particular , being banded together with a purpose to injure or destroy ! The propagation of such an idea is prompted by baseness and malice , and could only proceed from those who see but too surely in the determined efforts for . improvement the destruction of their own unconstitutional supremacy .
In admitting , as I do most willingly , that improvement has been effected , 1 would ask—to whom it is attributable , but to those who through evil report aim * good report have kept their course , and who will persevere therein undeterred by the opposition of the ignorant and the malevolent , having faith in themselves , and being sustained by the consciousness of their own singleness of purpose , which they are confident will become sufficiently manifest to enable them to triumph over misrepresentation and detraction ! While anxious on all occasions to yield my tribute of admiration to the many excellencies of the EarJ of Zetland , I reserve to myself the right oi 3 l *